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We study a class of deterministic mean field games and related optimal control problems, with a finite time horizon and in which the state space is a network. An agent controls her velocity, and, when she occupies a vertex, she can either…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Yves Achdou , Claudio Marchi , Nicoletta Tchou

Here, we consider a regularized mean-field game model that features a low-order regularization. We prove the existence of solutions with positive density. To do so, we combine a priori estimates with the continuation method. In contrast…

Quasi-stationary Mean Field Games models consider agents who base their strategies on current information without forecasting future states. In this paper we address the first-order quasi-stationary Mean Field Games system, which involves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Fabio Camilli , Claudio Marchi , Cristian Mendico

In this paper, we investigate the robustness of stationary mean-field equilibria in the presence of model uncertainties, specifically focusing on infinite-horizon discounted cost functions. To achieve this, we initially establish…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Uğur Aydın , Naci Saldi

Traditional solvable game theory and mean-field-type game theory (risk-aware games) predominantly focus on quadratic costs due to their analytical tractability. Nevertheless, they often fail to capture critical non-linearities inherent in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Julian Barreiro-Gomez , Tyrone E. Duncan , Bozenna Pasik-Duncan , Hamidou Tembine

We address the problem of existence and (non-)uniqueness of solutions $\big(c,u(\cdot),\mu\big)$ to ergodic mean-field games in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^{m}$ with unbounded and merely measurable data, and for non-separable Hamiltonian.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Hicham Kouhkouh

The standard formulation of the PDE system of Mean Field Games (MFG) requires the differentiability of the Hamiltonian. However in many cases, the structure of the underlying optimal problem leads to a convex but nondifferentiable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Yohance A. P. Osborne , Iain Smears

We establish a well-posedness and error-estimation framework that solves Hamilton-Jacobi equations by minimizing the least-squares residual of monotone finite-difference discretizations. This approach also applies naturally to second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Olivier Bokanowski , Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai

We consider mean-field control problems in discrete time with discounted reward, infinite time horizon and compact state and action space. The existence of optimal policies is shown and the limiting mean-field problem is derived when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Nicole Bäuerle

The paper studies the convergence, as $N$ tends to infinity, of a system of $N$ coupled Hamilton-Jacobi equations, the Nash system. This system arises in differential game theory. We describe the limit problem in terms of the so-called…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-09 Pierre Cardaliaguet , François Delarue , Jean-Michel Lasry , Pierre-Louis Lions

This manuscript discusses planning problems for first- and second-order one-dimensional mean-field games (MFGs). These games are comprised of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation coupled with a Fokker-Planck equation. Applying Poincar\'e's Lemma to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Tigran Bakaryan , Rita Ferreira , Diogo Gomes

We prove that solutions to a class of Mean Field Game systems with discount are unique provided that the discount factor is large enough, and the Lagrangian term is (proportionally) small enough. This identifies an asymptotic uniqueness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Marco Cirant , Elisa Continelli

We investigate a first-order mean field planning problem of the form \begin{equation} \left\lbrace\begin{aligned} -\partial_t u + H(x,Du) &= f(x,m) &&\text{in } (0,T)\times \mathbb{R}^d, \\ \partial_t m - \nabla\cdot (m\,H_p(x,Du)) &= 0…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Carlo Orrieri , Alessio Porretta , Giuseppe Savaré

In this paper, using variational approaches, we investigate the first order planning problem arising in the theory of mean field games. We show the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions of the problem in the case of a large class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-21 P. Jameson Graber , Alpár R. Mészáros , Francisco J. Silva , Daniela Tonon

Mean field games equations are examined for conservation laws. The system of mean field games equations consists of two partial differential equations: the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for the value function and the forward Kolmogorov…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Roman Kozlov

For two classes of Mean Field Game systems we study the convergence of solutions as the interest rate in the cost functional becomes very large, modeling agents caring only about a very short time-horizon, and the cost of the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Martino Bardi , Pierre Cardaliaguet

The purpose of this work is to introduce a notion of weak solution to the master equation of a potential mean field game and to prove that existence and uniqueness hold under quite general assumptions. Remarkably, this is achieved without…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Alekos Cecchin , François Delarue

We present examples of equations arising in the theory of mean field games that can be reduced to a system in smaller dimensions. Such examples come up in certain applications, and they can be used as modeling tools to numerically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Jean-Michel Lasry , Pierre-Louis Lions , Benjamin Seeger

In this paper we study Mean Field Game systems under density constraints as optimality conditions of two optimization problems in duality. A weak solution of the system contains an extra term, an additional price imposed on the saturated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Alpár Richárd Mészáros , Filippo Santambrogio

This paper proposes a new mathematical paradigm to analyze discrete-time mean-field games. It is shown that finding Nash equilibrium solutions for a general class of discrete-time mean-field games is equivalent to solving an optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Xin Guo , Anran Hu , Junzi Zhang